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To: Math Junkie who wrote (57198)12/11/2001 4:36:45 PM
From: michael97123  Respond to of 70976
 
Richard,
Merck supplies tranquilizers and heartburn meds to amat execs. With the coming recovery, amat cancelled those merck orders. When asked about this Amat ceo Morgan commented that funds allocated for those drugs are now being used to buy champagne for the above named execs. <g> mike



To: Math Junkie who wrote (57198)12/11/2001 5:10:09 PM
From: advocatedevil  Respond to of 70976
 
RE: "Somebody probably found out that Merck is going to buy zero equipment from AMAT next year! <g>"

Now, if only the CEO of Merck would reconfirm that zero semi-equip capex guidance each and every month going forward like Intel did last year... <g>

AdvocateDevil